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HOOD RIVKR, OREGON, SATURDAY. AUGUST 13, 1802.
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Batisfaution (JuaratiUad.
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
The Chinese Keriting Rooms in
the City of Tacoma.
OREGON'S WHEAT CROP FOR 1802.
Fruit Men of California In a l'lcasant
Frame of Mind Composition of
Oregon Legislature.
Portland and San Bernardino have In
augurated ft war on dives nnd dawe
homes. The Utah Liberals have decided to
nuininHte ft candidate for delegate to
I 'on grim .
Los Angeles It having an epidemic o(
burglaries. Several export crooks are
believed to Iw Ht work.
The Sacramento Federated Trades has
begun a crusade to compel the Chinese
to move outside tho city limits.
The Umatilla reservation la overrun
with lame black crickets, which are
proving deHtruulive to the grain fields.
Grasshoppers in swarms have aipt'ared
lit Williamson Valley, sixteen miles
north of Prescutt, A. T., and all vegeta
tion it suffering.
The fruit men of California w ere never
In lietter humor than lit preHent. Tlit
rise in price for fruit has made ft delight
ful change in affairs.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
slonerg will goon lie in Han Francisco to
look into the alleged discriminations on
Missouri river and l'acilic Coast rates.
One hundred and fifty Jang have been
run out of Nsnipa and GaldwwII, Idalio,
and thore will probably boa further up
rising against thotn ou the Oregon Short
lane.
Tlio Temescal tin mine haa lmen cloned
to the public owing to the lute pub
lished renorU of its standing. No one
will l)e allowed on the premises exrept
employes.
Rev. J. A. Smith, the absconding
evangelist, has returned to Santa Cms
from Seattle in company of the Sheriff.
Bail was set at f2,0UO, in lieu of which
he Is in lie acknowledges his guilt.
The Wollley Canal Company, in Mari
copa county, A. T., is working 5. HI men,
and the mounter enterprise will be com
pleted by November 1. Tho ditch is
over t0 miles In length and la now near
ing completion.
The Sun Luis and San Joaquin Rail
road Company has been incorporated,
with a capital stock of $100,000, to con
struct a railroad northward from San
Luis Obispo to 1 Moro, a distance of
alxmt ten miles.
At Phcenix, A. T., four member of the
Philharmonics Band (Mexican) iiave
been arrested on a charge of maintain
ing a nuisance, in playing their instru
ments between the hours of 10 and 12
A. M. and late at night.
Judge Van VIeet has decided to re
sign Ids position as Superior J edge at
Sacramento, to take effect within the
next few months. The Judge proposes
to resume the practice of his profession
and will locate in San Francisco.
Rooms at Tacoma have been rented
through third parties, presumably for
Twin Wo, of Portland, for the use of a
mercantile house. This is tha first de
cisive move to establish Chinese mer
chants in connection with the Northern
Pacific Oriental Steamship Line.
The weeds on the monitor Monadnock,
wbicb vessel has been lying for a year
near the ferry-gate entrance to the Mare
Island dock yard, were fonnd to be from
three to twelve inches in length, and it
required considerable labor to get them
off the hull.
Articles of Incorporation of the Gran
ite and Greenhorn Consolidated Mining;
and Milling Company of Granite, Grant
county, Or., were filed In the office of
the Secretary of State by A. J. Tabor,
Joseph N. Ditniara and C. N. Miller;
capital stock, $1,260,000.
Dun's Commercial Agency baa advices
from every wheat-growing, county in
Oregon, snowing that Oregon's wheat
crop for 1892 will be 2,800,000 bushels
loss than in 1801. The yield in the
State of Washington will, it ia stated,
be considerably diminished.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Many Discounting features In the EJu
cutlonal Situation In the United
States-Yale University.
Chicago schools will cost $Y0li,0H for
1802.
The new fourth duns at Went Point
has 2(u members.
Forty-three electrical engineers were
graduated from Cornell this year,
The University of Notre Dame, Notre
Dame, I nd., has just completed its forty
eighth year.
The total gifts to Yale during the last
year have Uteri $000,0(10, while Harvard
received but $600,0;K).
Yale University has Just celebrated
her one hundred and ninety-II rst birth
day. Old age is honorable.
The pupils of the Doylestown (Pa.)
public schools have about 11,400 to their
credit In the national bank.
Over 12,0(10 volumes have lieen added
to the library of Columbia College
within the lust twelve months.
Tho commencement of the University
of Michigan was held June 30. Nix hun
dred and eighty-nine students were
graduated.
Philadelphia pays school teachers $420
for a lirst year, increasing $.10 year for
five years, when the maximum of $570
is reached.
There are now seventy schools for the
deaf and dumb In the United Status, and
there is also a college for them located at
Washington, D. C.
At the recent commencement exer
cises of the Ohio Wesleyau University,
Delaware, ()., a clans of precisely 100 was
graduated In the various courses.
The American Society for the Inten
sion of University Teaching has decided
to establish a university extension sem
inary for the training of lecturers and
organizen.
The University of Pennsylvania has
this year 1,704 students, winch makes it
fourth in the list of great educational In
stitutions. The three greater are Yale,
Harvard and Michigan Universities.
Cheese-making in Canada has enor
mously Improved within recent years as
a result of the method of instruction
which has been promoted by the govern
ment in sending comjeteut Instructors
among the cheesemakcrs.
The National Kducational Association
recently in session at Saratoga, resolved
to hold no meeting in 180.1, hut Instead
to take part in the World's Kducational
Congress to be hold In Chicago during
the Columbian Imposition.
The Ohio University at Athens enjoys
the uniqtiH distinction of being the old
est institution of collegiate rank in the
.Northwest territory and of antedating
all similar institutions in that region by
nearly a quarter of a century. One of
its Presidents was Dr. W. II. McGulley,
whose scries of school readers have been
in extensive use for more than a genera
tion. Its recent commencement closed
the most successful year of its history,
both numerically anil financially.
There are many discouraging features
in the educational situation in this coun
try, but there are also many signs of
progress. Education is weakest in the
secondary schools and strongest in the
universities and in the primary schools.
That which many of our intermediate
sclio ls the public schools especially
lack in freshness of spirit, vitality of in
terest and variety of method the kinder
gartens and colleges and universities are
developing In a rcmarkebl) degree.
Tho spreud of the kindergarten and the
enthusiasm with which the spiritual idea
of education beh'nd it is being re
ceived promise notable results in the
near future.
PURELY PERSONAL
Prof. Garner Goes to Africa to Study the
Language of the Gorilla and the
Chimpanzee Etc.
Some famous men's letters do not need
to be burned. One of the "Iron Duke"
of Wellington has never yet been read.
Princess Louise and President Harri
son's wife are said to be the only ladies
who have ever been permitted to enter
the cloisters of the Monastery of Santa
Barbara.
Tom Carter, Chairman of the Repub
lican National Committee, was once a
book agent in Illinois, and Las sold cop
ies of the "Footprints of Time" to
Quincy people.
Mr. Moody will not return to America
in time to conduct his general conference
at North Held this year, and Dr. A. J.
Gordon of Boston will have charge of the
meetings in his absence.
William T. Adams, better known as
" Oliver Optic," has written altogether
more than 100 books for boys, and he is
now busy at work with another. Mr.
Adams is 70, but well enough preserved
to last for thirty years to come.
Some New England newspapers speak
of Miss Ruth Burnett, wko is a postu
lant for admission into one of the Cath
olic sisterhoods, as a niece of James Rus
sell Lowell. The Boston Herald sets
them right by declaring her a sister of
the poet's son-in-law.
Josephine Werner, a New York confi
dence woman with the expressive alias
of " Weeping Caroline," has been sen
tenced to five years imprisonment for
obtaining money under false pretenses.
For thirty years she has bled the char
itable by way of her tear ducts and false
stories.
General Kirby Smith's children all
have " Kirby " in their names, and there
are a great many of them. The Aldrich
collection of autographs in Des Moines.
Ia., has just been enriched by General
Smith's fast official order in the Confed
erate service, commanding an aide at
New Orleans to turn over some funds to
General Canby, the Federal commander
there.
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Warm and Friendly Expressions of
International Good Will.
THE PRESIDENT AND KING HUMBERT
The Wheat Exports of the United States
Last Year The Canadians on
Canal Reprisals.
Cattle In Lyon county, Tex., are suf
fering from Texas fever.
A Chicago dispatch says the whisky
trust is in clanger of disruption.
The Salvation Army slum workers In
New York say the slums of that city are
as oaa as those in ixinuon.
Cruiser No. 12, denominated hitherto
as the Pirate, is to be named the Colum
bia by order ef Secretary Tracy.
Dr. F. L. Sim, a noted specialist on
nervous diseases, has declared Alice
Mitchell, who shot tied a Ward at Mem
phis, insane.
General Weaver was presented at Den
ver with a silver pen, with which to sign
the free-coinage bill when he is elected
Presideut of the United States.
IHal capitalists, acting with an out
side syndicate, have made oilers for the
purchase of some of the street railways
of NowOrleitus so as to consolidate them
all.
The people of Louisiana have resolved
not to tie dry nod out again, and the
general levee system is to tie rained three
ti-et above Hie height of the recent
flood.
The United States exported last year
225,000,000 bushels of wheat, its lament
export, ami Eastern grain men are of
the opinion that next year will be still
larger.
The Secretary of State is advised of
the denunciation by Salvador of the
treaty concluded in Decemlier, 1870. The
treaty will, however, continue till May
30 next.
The Canadians on the question of ca
nal reprisals threaten to return blow for
blow, and if the Americans want to light,
they can have as much of that article as
they want.
The most conservative estimatas pt
ihe wheat yield this year at 650.000,'.WO
bushel and the corn yield at 1,700,W0,
000. This is a falling oil" from lS'.U on
both cereals.
A watch company in Canton, O., is
suing the American watch trust for dam
ages resulting from a boycott instituted
by the trust to force the company into
I he organization.
Assistant Superintendent of the Coast
and Geodetic Survey Davidson will be
detailed to assist Colonel Mendell in pre
paring a plan for a system of sewerage
for San Francisco.
Of a total of 800 convicts in the Kan
sas penitentiary but nineteen are fe
males, showing that women possess only
a little more than 2 per cent, of the
cussedness found in men.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Mason in his report for the fiscal year
ended J une 30 says : " The total collec
tions of internal revenue were $153,b57,
643, an increase of $7,822,128 over the
previous year.
The newest innovation in cars is the
" whaleback " freight car, made of steel
and said to be superior to the ordinary
square-built car. It is claimed that in
collision they will be able to withstand
an enormous push.
A sensation haa been created at Den
ver by the arrest of J. H. Cross and J.
McDaniels, who are charged with the
robbery of President Moffatt of the First
National Bank, which created such a
sensation there years ago.
It is expected that the cable road on
Third avenue, New York, will be in op
eration by next November. The road
will be divided into three sections, with
a separate cable for each section and a
different speed for each cable.
A New York woman has been making
a good thing by having her teeth pulled
bv barbers ana then informing on them.
The; fine for the unauthorized and irreg
ularfculling of a tooth by any tonsorial
practitioner in that city is $50.
At one time there were $3,000,000,000
of United States bonds out. payable in
gold money or its equivalent. These
have been redeemed, except about $500,
000,000, and most of these are held
against national bank currency.
St. Louis will have over sis miles of
Illuminated streets during the autumnal
festivities. There will not be less than
fifty arches and over 75,000 electric lamps
and gas lets in each night's display.
The electric-light companies are putting
in engines and dynamos especially for
the occasion.
At Cincinnati last week was a gather
ing of leading capitalists to discuss a
proposition to organize a steamship line
between New Orleans and South Ameri
can ports. The sura of $4,000,000 has
already been subscribed, and $2,000,000
is aBked from Cincinnati and other cities
that will be benefited by the direct trade
with South American ports.
A letter haa been received by Editor
Medill of the Chicago Tribune from the
Marquis de Mores, expressing disap
proval of the way he has been treated in
the Tnbune and asking if Mr. Medill as
sumed the responsibility. Mr. Medill is
65 years of age. He looks on the letter
as a challenge, but says he is willing to
meet the Marquis in a twenty-four-foot
ring in Jackson Park with gloves, mus
kets or anything suitable. The Tribune
treats the matter humorously.
CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS.
iMessage Relative to the Practicability of
a Cable Between California and
the Hawaiian Islands.
The House bill for the admission of
New Mexico will not be called up until
next session.
As a precautionary measure ugainst
the Introduction of cholera Secretary
Tracy has directed the Collectors of Cus
toms along the Atlantic seaboard to pro-
ii mil me lauuing oi immigrants from
France.
The presiding officer of the Senate has
laid More that body a message from the
President .if the United States, with the
accompanying papers, relative to the
practicability of laying a cable between
California and the Hawaiian Islands.
Secretary Tracy of the Navy Department
in a letter states that the result of the
survey shows that a practicable route
can lie easily selected. The report of
the hydrographic office of the bureau of
navigation states that the survey shows
that the laying of the cable on almost
any line between California and the Ha
waiian Islands is practicable. A line
about 300 miles wide was developed be
tween California and Hawaii, and the
results as shown bv the report Beern to
indicate the most favorable route to be a
rhomb line between Monterey Bay,Cal.,
and Honolulu.
Senator Allen's bill granting about
twenty-eight acres of the Fort Walia
Walla military reservation to the city of
Walla Walla for a public park has passed
the Senate. The bill allows the city of
Walla Walla the use of the triangular
portion of the reservation on tha north
corner, which is separated from the m tin
body of the reserve by the county high
way and the Oregon railway and naviga
tion track, for a public park. It pro
vides, however, that before beginning to
use any of the land the city shall present
to the Secretary of War detailed plans
for the improvement, and it shall re
ceive his approval ; also that the United
States reserves to itself the title in the
tract and the right to resume possession
and occupy any portion of it whenever
In the Judgment of the Presdent the
public interest mar require it without
any claim for compensation to the city
for the improvements made or for dm
ages which the government siay infill
Representative Wilson has introduced
a bill granting the Northern Pacific
right of way through the Puyallup In
dian reservation, which has recently
been favorably reported by the Commit
tee on Indian Affairs. The bill proposes
to ratify and confirm an agreement be
tween the ruyalinp Indians and the
Northern Pacific, made in 1870. which
grants right of way through the reserva
tion for the Cascade branch of the
Northern Pacific. There has been a
number of bills introduced before for
rights of way through the Puyallup reser
vation, but all have been postponed or
hung up, awaiting some action which
will forever settle the Puvallup Indian
difficulties. Perhaps this bill will be
treated in the same way, although it is
now represented that the Northern Pa
cific needs the granted right of way and
the station grounds, and there is really
no reason why some bill should not pass.
Of course the various railroad companies
generally fi'ht each other on bills of
this character, each desiring to secure
the best lands on the water front. It is
Erobable, however, that this bill will be
ung up unlil some action is taken next
winter on the pending Puyallup bill in
the Senate.
THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
Harvard University Applies for Space for
a Representative Exhibit From
That Institution.
The World's Fair directory haa ex
pended up to date approximately $7,250.-
000.
The famed "Six Nations" in New
York State will be well represented in
the Indian exhibit at the World's Fair.
It is proposed to hold World's Fairs in
Berlin in 1898 and in Paris in 1900. but
definite action has not yet been taken by
me nations concerned.
In Denmark's exhibit at the World's
Fair will be a fine array of porcelain
ware aud a notable art display, including
reproductions of many of the Thoswald
Ben sculptures.
Several Amazons of the King of Da
homey will probably be Been in the Da
homey village, which will be established
at the World's Fair. Sixty or seventy
natives and their manner of living will
be shown.
An effort is being made to have the
cotton mills of Georgia make a fine ex
hibit at the World's Fair. It is believed
that such exhibit would greatly stimu
late the investment of capital in cotton
mills in the South.
The exhibit to be made at the World's
Fair by Krupp, the celebrated German
gunmaker, will represent an expenditure
of $1,500,000. The largest cannon ever
made, weighing 122 tons, will be in the
exhibit, as will also several hundred tons
of war material.
The World's Fair Commission for Peru
has asked government aid to enable it to
make an exhibit of living animals of
that country. It has suggested the im
portance to all breeders, especially of the
animals peculiar to that region, such f s
llamas, alpacas, paco-vicunas and others,
and there is no doubt that a very credit
able exhibit will be sent to Chicago.
The authorities of Harvard University
have applied to Chief Peabodv of the
department of liberal arts of the World's
r air lor square ieei ior a tnorougn
ly representative educational exhibit
from that historic institution. The offi
cers of the university say they are pre
pared not only to fill, but to splendidly
and representatively fill every foot of
space which can be granted to them.
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Inebriety Among the Fashionable
Women in England.
LAVA DESTROYS MOUNTAIN HUTS.
The Eyesight of the Czarina Growing
Worse An Insurrection In the
Congo Free State.
It la reputed to have cost the present
r.mperor oi c;mna iiu.uuu.UOU to get
marneu.
A recently discovered manuscript
proves mat uoiumtms was born at Sa
voua, Italy.
They call the bicycle the devil's char
iot in Turkey, and the Sultan has for
bidden its use.
Buffalo Bill was one of the lions of the
evening at one of Mrs. Mackay's recent
London receptions.
It is proposed to have an exhibition at
Milan in 1804 similar to the one now in
progress at Vienna.
Miss Terry's little slice for her share
of the Irving-cum-Terry tour in America
next year is fW.UW.
Riots have been caused by the cholera
regulations in Tashkend. The troops
killed and wounded seven persons.
A street-car line is now being built in
Tashkend. the capital of Russian Turk
estan, by a French company.
The lava stream from Mount .Etna has
destroyed many mountain huts, and is
rapidly approaching Nicolosi.
At the Bislev (England) rifle meetimr
Scotland won the national challenge
trophy with an aggregate score of 1,2.
All the pawnshops in Moscow owned
by Jews will be closed before the end of
this month by order of the government.
V erdi has consented to compose a can
tata or symphony in honor of the Co
lumbus celebration at Genoa this au
tumn.
It is eaid that only five Dassenirers
were killed on all the railways of Great
Britain and Ireland during the whole of
last year.
A series of fires have been rerjorted
from the Philippine Islands, rendering
thousands of inhabitants homeless and
destitute.
The Arabs of Yonirwe on the Unner
Congo have revolted against the Congo
Free State and cut olf communication
with Tanganyika.
All the tickets for next summer's ner-
formance at Beyruth have been sold;
$140,000 in all has been received for the
twenty performances.
Latest advices from the Areentine Re
public state that wages are again going
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scarcity of farm laborers.
The greatest oculists of Europe will
soon be called in to consult upon the
condition of the eyesight of the Czarina,
which grows from bad to worse.
It is said by those within the pale that
overindulgence in intoxicating beverages
is lamentably on the increase among
fashionable women in England.
Information respecting the cereal ex
ports of the Argentine Republic for the
first quarter of 1892 indicates a large in
crease over the same period in the pre
vious year.
A scheme is now being developed in
Scotland by which a high grade of brick
is being made from chipped granite and
clay. The experiments are ssid to have
been successful.
The newly elected Municipal Councils,
composed of Socialists, have dissevered
the police force in several towns of
France. The government will reorgan
ize them as State police.
For the first half of the current year
the returns of no less than seventeen
English railroads show a falling off, and
the loss in coal freights is responsible
for more than half of that.
The London Times, which tried to ruin
Mr. Parnell through a series of Pigot
letters before he had ruined himself, ie
now coddling the Parnellites, who are
wavering in their support of Gladstone.
Raimunds Indueza Palacio, ex-Dictator
of Venezuela, has arrived at Paris, with
$15,000,000 as a golden solace for the ills
of defeated ambition. He says the good
of his country was all he desired, but he
got more.
The medical department of St. Peters
burg is distributing cholera disinfectants
at cost prices. The Czar presided at a
discussion of the appointment of an of
ficer with dictatorial power to combat
the epidemic in the Volga provinces.
An opportunity will be presented to
the arcbssologista who visit the Colum
bian Exposition at Madrid to instiect
one of the well-known European palaeo-
iiiuic sues, mat oi san laidro, in the
Valley of the Manzanares near Madrid.
It is predicted that the coming mobil
ization of the British naval forces will
be on a very large scale. With the ex
ception of the Minotaur, Indefatigable
and possibly the Latona all the ships of
the Portsmouth fleet reserve will be
commissioned.
The Cologne Gazelle alleges that the
African natives who recently repulsed
Baron von Bulow's forces in the Moshi
territory, near Kilimanjora, were sup
plied with a large number of Snyder
rifles and 30,000 cartridges by the British
East India Company.
The trial of the Anarchists at Liege,
Belgium, concluded with a verdict of
guilty. Moineaurthe leader, was sen
tenced to twenty-five years' penal serv
itude. Wolff and Beaujeau got twenty
years each, the four others fifteen years
eaeh and nine to shorter terms.
CLEVER DETECTIVE WORK.
A Not.I Plan for Orerhesrlnf and Ova,
looking- Chicago'. Uoodlar.
Several aldermen of the city of Chicago
have been Indicted for accepting bribe,
and the matter from It similarity to tt
celebrated New York "boodle" canes is at
tracting national attention. The evidence
against the aldermen was very skillfully
Worked up by Detective John Bonfleld,
wboiie device for overbearing the consulta
tions of the conspirators in related by the
Chicago News as follows:
When Alderman Johnny Powers read
that certain detectives bad been watching
"boodling" operations through ft hole in
tbe ceiling, he went into the business de
partment of his saloon on Madixon street
nd looked carefully at the wall paper
overhead. He could not see any hole. Af
ter gazing at the wall paper long and
earnestly without finding a break or tat
ter he became convinced of his own Inno
cence and said tbe story was a lie. Johnny
i'owera is not a specialist in optical Illu
sions. Detective John lionleld is.
When the saloon was opened on Madison
street by Alderman Powers and Alderman
O'Brien it was tbe understanding that th
place waa to be the headquarters for th
"gang." Thoee who were watching th
operations of the crowd soon became con
vinced that much business was being trans
acted in the private office of Powers &
O'Brien. Detectives made an examination
of the premises. The saloon, fronting north
on Madlaon street, had a cigar stand and
screen near tbe front door. The bar ex
tended down the eaHt of tbe room to the
tall ice chest. Behind the ice chest and
shut off by partitions eight feet high were
two private rooms, apparently intended for
wine closets. The room in front was kept
locked. Alderman Powers and Alderman
O'Brien each carried a key. Behind these
two private rooms waa the partition sepa
rating the barroom from the "stock ex
change" bucket shop in the rear. An
offset in the west wall of tbe barroom nar
rowed the passage leading to the bock,
room. The private office had a safe in the
northeast corner and a table In the center.
The detectives gained temporary posses
sion of the vacant room over the saloon.
Election Commissioner Hutchings held th
lease. They fonnd that the offset in the
west wall continued up through the second
floor. By estimating t! uiatances from
the angle of the ciUet they were able to
locate a point in the floor immediately
above the private ollice. This waa not
done, however, until frequent visits had
been mode to the saloon and all of the dis
tances had been "stepped off" by the
sleuths. Then the next thing was to get
hole through the ceiling and watch the
transaction of business in the clearing
house.
It waa no easy task to make a hole In
the ceiling large enough to see what was
going on underneath and small enough to
escape attention. The new wall paper in
the barroom was of a light shade and ft
black hole, even a half inch in diameter,
would have been at once noticed.
The boards were sawed off between the
joists, which were sixteen inches apart.
Then the laths were cut out for a space
about six inches in diameter. Tbe re
moval of the plastering was a careful oper
ation. A solution of glue and water was
used to moisten it, and it was picked out
little at a time. The detectives were ex
pecting to come to the wall paper, but they
were surprised to find a layer of boards
under the plaster. When a hole was cau
tiously chiseled through the boards the
workers came to a layer of muslin, to
which the wall paper had been plastered.
This was a piece of good fortune. The stiff
muslin allowed a 6-inch hole to be cut in
the wood. The only things to be pen
etrated were the cloth and paper.
Detective Bonfleld then decided to prick
a large number of very small holes through
the muslin and paper. Experiments were
made, and it was found that a sheet of pa
per could be made as porous as mosquito
bar without marking it up. It was feared,
however, that in trying to put in so many
of the little apertures the paper might be
torn by the holes "running Into each
other." So the needles were fastened to
gether in a comb and the work was done
with tbe holes very close to each other.
It was found that the whole interior of
the office could be seen and the talk could
be plainly heard. In order for the ob
server to lie down and keep his eye over
the sieve, a neat little shelf was inserted
between the joists. All of this tedious
work was done in the few hours of tha
night during which the place below was
closed. i
As to what the man on the shelf saw
and heard and what was taken down in
short hand the grand jury will inquire in
good time. After sufficient observation
had satisfied the detectives, the bole was
closed up and the floor relaid. The reason
Alderman Johnny Powers did not And
the hole was that there were several hun
dred holes.
Feats of Fakir.
Soli man ben Aissa, an East Indian fakir,
haa set the Viennese physicians to talk
ing. He performs remarkable tricks, or
whatever they may be called, and his en
tertainments created so much excitement
that the authorities have refused to permit
him to exhibit in public. One of Soliman'a
favorite tests is to inhale the smoke from
a powder prepared from extracts of snake
and scorpion poisons. Then he shakes his
head violently and foams at the mouth.
While this is going on a large stiletto is
thrust through his tongue, and his body is
used as a pincushion by bis assistant
Soliman also pulls his eyeballs forward
and holds them outside the sockets be
tween his fingers. A blazing torch is held
against his arm and . he never flinches.
Chewing glass is a diversion which Soli
man now considers it beneath his "profes
sional" dignity to perform.
They Were His Own.
A journalist told me that he once over
heard this passage of arms between a
coachman and a beggar man outside the
Four Courts, Dublin. As the beggar was
whining for alms at the carriage door the
coachman turned around to cry sharply to
him, "Come, my man, take your rags out
of that!" The beggar, with a withering
glance at the coachman's livery, retorted:
"Me ragsl They're me own, me manr'
B. A. King ia Belgravia.